So let’s watch the movie?

Last Sunday when we visited the village of Yanranai to hold the youth service we were planning to watch a movie. It was on our agenda for the last two or three weeks, but plans have been changing as they often are here. Last two Sundays we’ve been celebrating other people’s birthdays. We were promising to show this movie to the youth, so this time we thought we’ll show it. So we thought. As many people gathered around the big screen, we couldn’t quite get it started. We had a couple guests with us and so they shared a little about their life and how they came to know Christ. Fedya, one young man who made a lot of progress this summer getting closer to God couldn’t make the next step. As Andrey, our guests was sharing about his life and how he came from somewhat a similar background, Fedya was asking him a lot of questions and was sharing how he stumbled and fell many times and tried to make the next step – repent but was trying to “get ready” for it. Then Andrey asked him, “what prevents you from doing that today?” “Nothing,” he replied and we knelt down with him and prayed. He sobbed and prayed shakingly. Last Sunday we celebrated his birthday, this Sunday we celebrated his Second birthday and the movie was postponed, again, but no one seemed to be dissapointed by that. Praise God for His timing for each sould and the people that He puts in their path to bring them into His Kingdom.